Research field · part of Physical Sciences
Environmental Science
Interdisciplinary field that studies human interaction with the environment.
Also known as: green science, environmental studies, environmental and ecological sciences
17.7M
Works (OpenAlex)
154.0M
Citations (OpenAlex)
11
Subfields
Counts: OpenAlex snapshot, March 2026. They cover every work OpenAlex has classified in this field, not only papers in our index.
Most-cited papers in Environmental Science
From our index (snapshot, October 2026): papers whose primary topic falls in this field, ranked by citation count. Counts that fail a plausibility check are left out.
Climate change 2007: the physical science basis
Willem A. Landman
2010South African Geographical Journal31,174 citations
The ERA5 global reanalysis
Hans Hersbach, Bill Bell, Paul Berrisford, Shoji Hirahara, Ándrás Horányi et al.
2020Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society28,739 citations
The ERA‐Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system
Dick Dee, S. Uppala, A. J. Simmons, Paul Berrisford, Paul Poli et al.
2011Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society26,230 citations
The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital
Robert Costanza, Ralph C. d’Arge, R.S. de Groot, Stephen Färber, Monica Grasso et al.
1997Nature21,671 citations
A modified single solution method for the determination of phosphate in natural waters
J.E. Murphy, J.P. Riley
1962Analytica Chimica Acta20,838 citations
Maximum entropy modeling of species geographic distributions
Steven J. Phillips, Robert P. Anderson, Robert E. Schapire
2005Ecological Modelling17,289 citations
Pseudo-second order model for sorption processes
Yuh‐Shan Ho, Gordon McKay
1999Process Biochemistry16,859 citations
An Overview of CMIP5 and the Experiment Design
Karl E. Taylor, Ronald J. Stouffer, Gerald A. Meehl
2011Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society14,669 citations
A new method for non‐parametric multivariate analysis of variance
Marti J. Anderson
2001Austral Ecology13,230 citations